1 14 GARDENING B Y MYSELF. 



too much, — give them every needed help, 

 every delicate attention ; and let them have 

 time, and do you have patience. You must 

 not expect to see your Fairyland what gar- 

 deners call a *' mass of bloom" so early in 

 the season. If the beds were full now, thev 

 would be over-crowded by and by ; there- 

 fore enjoy the flowers that are out and the 

 growth already made, and be thankful as 

 well as patient. Cannot one wait a little 

 among such troops of roses? Why, my 

 Souvenir Henry Clay is so heavy with bloom 

 that neither stake nor string will hold it. I 

 have tied it again and again. Pio Nono is all 

 in green just now, at the end of the month, 

 gathering strength for a fresh outburst ; and 

 Salet bears the last few of its new crop. 

 And the beautiful Mine. Bosanquet blushes 

 always ; and Mme. Falcot wears her daily 

 dress of dainty buff; and Mme. Plantier has 

 well-nigh said farewell until another year. 



Just over Mine. Falcot rise the tall stems 

 of my excelsum lily, with pendant bells of 

 rosy buff, touched off with anthers of deep 



